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The Accused
The Crime
The Details
From file: 4/1002/4
Document: 8
Oct 17, 1739
Crime

Flint, St Asaph, co. Flint

Theft of money. Prisoner and the prosecutor were fellow servants and formerly of Llanrwst, co. Denb. Prisoner aged 17. more

Offence type: Larcenies
Specific offence: Theft of personal goods (mainly wearing apparel, money and watches)

Accused
Mark Cadwalader, Labourer/singleman 1
Flint, St Asaph, co. Flint
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
Thomas Williams, Llanrwst, servant/singlema
Result

Verdict:
Guilty.

Punishment:
Transported for 7 years2

Other:
E, I, Ca

  • 1 Occupation / Status given in related documents within the same Gaol File preferred over that given in the indictment.
  • 2 Sentence added from related document(s) outside the records of the Great Sessions, usually the Criminal Registers in the National Archives.
From file: 4/1002/4
Document: 6
Nov 3, 1739
Crime

Flint, St Asaph, co. Flint

Infanticide of her male bastard child by beating it. The child had been 'crammed or forced' into a wooden cheese vat, 'undressed and unwashed ... with it's navel string uncut'. Prisoner already had one daughter. Prisoner had 'never perceived the said child alive within her since she had heard the beat of a drum on the king's birthday'. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Infanticide, i.e. new born child murder (including concealing birth)

Accused
Jane Griffith, Singlewoman
Flint, St Asaph, co. Flint
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
William Powell & Thomas Lloyd
Result

Verdict:
Not guilty.

Punishment:

Other:
I, E, Iq, Ca, R

From file: 4/1002/4
Document: 17
Dec 5, 1739
Crime

Denbigh, Abergele

Theft of cotton wool belonging to George Tyrer , Thomas Steel, John Knight, John Cobham, Catherine Wilson and the prosecutor, Partners and Merchants, from a warehouse. Indicted with a larceny, not theft from a warehouse. William Davies, Llanasa, tailor, implicated but not indicted. more

Offence type: Larcenies
Specific offence: Theft of cloth / wool

Accused
Richard Jones, Mariner
Flint, Whitford
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
Charles Roberts, Liverpool, co. Lancs, merc
Result

Verdict:
Guilty to the value of 10d - partial verdi

Punishment:
To be whipped

Other:
E, R, I

From file: 4/1002/4
Document: 24
Jan 1, 1740
Crime

Flint, Holywell

Assault. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Assault (including wounding, but not malicious wounding)

Accused
Josiah Coleslough, Glazier
Flint, Holywell
Plea:
Prosecutor
John Narmon, glazier
Result

Verdict:
No true bill.

Punishment:

From file: 4/1002/4
Document: 25
Feb 1, 1740
Crime

Flint, St Asaph, co. Flint

Assault on Margaret Davies, spinster. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Assault (including wounding, but not malicious wounding)

Accused
John Ellis, Yeoman
Flint, St Asaph, co. Flint
Plea:
Prosecutor
Jane Williams
Result

Verdict:

Punishment:

Other:
R